Novices In Political Office Are Worthless
Ryan Zinke was the freshman Congresscritter from Montana when Drumpf picked him for Secretary of the Interior. There is no logical reason for him to do something as stupid as making threats against Lisa Murkowski, the senior Senator from Alaska, for her votes on the tax cut/’healthcare’ bills that Republicans are trying to pass in the Senate. He did it anyway and Senator Murkowski reacted: Lisa Murkowski Cancels Key Interior Hearings After Ryan Zinke Threatens Her.
She is the chairperson of the Senate committee that holds hearings on Interior Department jobs, and the subcommittee that must approve the Interior Department’s budget. Zinke’s SEAL training isn’t going to do him much good against a woman who shoots and dresses out moose and brown bears. He should have done some recon before making a move.
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They aren’t the only ones! I saw a lengthy survey I posted on Twitter of “Change in religious composition of the 111th to the 115th United States Congress”. You can probably guess, but…
Of the 535 members, majority are protestant (111: 295 – 115: 306); Catholic: 111: 161 – 115: 168; Mormon 111:14 – 115: 16… Only 10 in the 115th congress are unaffiliated (or refused to answer). But US isn’t a Christian Nation! riiiiight…
No wonder the USA is FUBAR!
It is not supposed to be, which is why religious freedom is in Number 1 of the Big 10. The media lets the whackoes get away with rewriting history to support their delusions.
Btw, I did mean to congratulate Lisa Murkowski! Well done! 😀 Zinke is nothing but a bully. It should be difficult to think a SEAL would be, but recent history shows otherwise. If he’d been in my unit, he wouldn’t have survived.
Just saw this. A small candle of common sense shines…
Massachusetts high court to police: You can’t detain immigrants for Trump
Yeah. As we’ve discussed, LEO’s in the USA today have no idea what their job is, obviously. And common decency is a thing of the past. *Shrug*
Susan Collins, the Republican Senator from Maine who voted against the bill was applauded at the airport when she returned for the weekend. Neither Collins nor Murkowshi can be threatened if they choose to run again – they did what their voters wanted. Murkowski doesn’t face reelection until 2 years after Trump is gone, so she has no reason to fear him or Zinke. She is a real supporter of Native Alaskan issues and gets a lot of support in return. ‘Obamacare’ helped Alaskans.
Here is the issue with local LEOs enforcing immigration rules and regulations – they aren’t criminal laws, they are Federal rules and regulations. It isn’t a criminal matter, it is a civil matter. You can’t hold people without charging them. If they aren’t free to leave, they are arrested, and you have to cite a law they broke and the probable cause that you found to justify your actions. The local agency can be sued and the Feds for damn sure won’t cover the costs.
Immigration enforcement is not even a civil matter, it’s an administrative action matter, the administrative actions being revocation of a permit (visa) if one exists, and removal of the person to another country, said removal being defined as an administrative action rather than as punishment for a crime. The law was specifically written to *not* make it a criminal matter because if it was a criminal matter, then the person subject to removal has the right to a lawyer at government expense thanks to that whole “right to an attorney” thingy in the Constitution, as well as the right to due process via that whole process laid down in the Bill of Rights (must be indicted by a grand jury, must have option of being tried before a jury of peers, etc.). Treating immigration enforcement as a criminal matter rather than as an administrative procedure opens up the government to a whole can of whup-ass for mass violation of people’s Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Same applies to local law enforcement.
Agree.
So, Trumper is in full-on tantrum mode again! 😆 😆
Trump may end health subsidy for members of Congress
His latest tweet:
“The very outdated filibuster rule must go. Budget reconciliation is killing R’s in Senate. Mitch M, go to 51 Votes NOW and WIN. IT’S TIME!”
😆 😆 Apparently, Mitch’s time is about to expire! 😆 Can’t say that’d be a bad thing in any way! 😉 😀
Oh yeah! And this little item nobody seems to have noticed:
Putin forces U.S. to cut embassy staff by 755
Sooo… Who’s da boss? Aha! 🙄
Badtux, to a LEO anything that isn’t penal/criminal is civil. Administrative law judges deal with a lot of different issues, but the real difference is the technical lack of a ‘penalty’, you don’t go to jail. As you say the rules were written specifically to avoid a criminal charge, which would require a ‘a trial of your peers’, bail, counsel, etc. I worked with what was then called the Immigration & Naturalization Service, but only to assist them in locating people. Most coordination was a matter of staying out of each other’s way.
Trump apparently didn’t understand that Mitch couldn’t come with a bill that would attract the support of 50 Republican Senators, the 60 vote problem was sidestepped. He also doesn’t seem to under stand that Congress can stop paying for a lot of things the While House likes – power, HVAC, water, Congress can override a Presidential veto and the President can pound sand. He still hasn’t figured out that he lacks the popularity to be able to make a real political threat against Congress, and Congress controls the checkbook.
Putin gave up on Trump, and responded the way he intended when Obama imposed the last round of sanctions. We may start seeing leaks of what was hacked from Republican sources by the GRU
Lisa Murkowski is now my new favorite Republican. Favorite Republican, hmmm. Never thought I would say those words. lol.
Unlike Palin, Lisa Murkowski was born and raised in Alaska. When her Dad, Frank, resigned his Senate seat to take the office of governor, he appointed Lisa, and all hell broke loose. She went on to prove that she could do the job, and took care of Alaskans.
Palin made her name bucking the Alaskan Republican Party, and Lisa Murkowski told Palin’s Teaparty Republicans to stuff it when she ran as a write-in candidate for her Senate seat in 2010 against the GOP’s official candidate and won. She is a Republican because it is convenient, but she has no trouble bucking the party for the good of her people and state. She’s an Alaskan Republican.
I’m liking her better and better…ran as a write-in against the Tea Party and won. Well, well. Bet that stood them on their heads. No wonder she feels free to be independent, she doesn’t owe them anything, but being an “Alaskan Republican” she probably would be anyway. 🙂
The junior Senator is going to face push back from Alaskans for voting for the bill after being threatened by Zinke. Alaskans don’t like being pushed, even if it was in the direction they wanted to go.